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Your Benefits - Building Generational Health! APS Benefits Annual Open/Switch Enrollment & Wellness Fair

Building generational health by encouraging employees to consider the legacy of well-being they create and pass on through health, harmony, hope, and home. Attend the APS Wellness Fair for in-person open enrollment support, mammograms, biometric screenings, walk-up vaccines, and so much MORE!

Logo of Building Generational Health. House frame outline with icon of heart shaped family. 

Open/Switch Enrollment is October 1 through 16

All benefit-eligible employees can review, enroll, or switch benefit selections online during this time. Benefit-eligible employees will receive emails from HRnoreply@aps.edu starting October 1, 2026. Benefit selections made during Open/Switch Enrollment will be effective on January 1, 2027. 

  • Note: Even if you are a new employee, recently hired between July and September, you must participate in the open enrollment process to understand any benefit changes effective January 1, 2027. 
  • This is also the time to enroll or re-enroll in the ASIFlex healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) for 2027. You must re-enroll in the FSA each year during Open Enrollment, even if you recently enrolled as a new employee. 

Medical, Dental, and Vision Rates for 2027

For 2027, medical, dental, and vision premium rates will increase by 20.5%. We realize this is difficult for employees and families. As a reminder, as of July 1, 2026, per HB 47, passed in the 2026 NM Legislative Session, the cost-share for voluntary medical, dental, and vision plan premium rates is 80% APS and 20% enrolled employees. This means APS pays 80% of the premium, and employees pay 20%, regardless of each benefits-eligible employee's annual salary. 

If you have questions and want to understand why our costs are rising, please read this informative presentation on APS Benefits as a self-insured organization, what that means, and the 'why' behind continued rising healthcare coverage costs. 

To review your medical plan options, comparisons, and pharmacy benefits, refer to the medical plan comparison and pharmacy plan information page. 

APS Wellness Fair 

Wednesday, Oct. 7 & Thursday, Oct. 8, 2:30 - 6:00 p.m. at Berna Facio Training Center

Please do not go to City Center. All Wellness Fair events, including mammograms, vaccinations, blood donations, BCBS Care Van and Presbyterian Mobile Health Care Units biometric screenings, and assistance with online enrollment, will be at Berna Facio. 

About the Wellness Fair

We host the annual Employee Wellness Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 7, and Thursday, Oct. 8, from 2:30 to 6:00 p.m. All APS employees are welcome.

Some services require an appointment and have expanded hours. Please see below. 

In addition to in-person support for open/switch enrollment, all APS Benefits vendors, including medical, vision, dental, pharmacy, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, the voluntary retirement savings plan, NMERB, and the employee assistance program, will be available to answer questions and provide resources. 

This is your one-stop destination for preventive screenings, vaccinations, and one-on-one consultations with your wellness team.

New This Year - Mobile App Mania & Win Extra Prizes!

Stop by the BCBS, Presbyterian, Delta Dental, Davis Vision, Express Scripts, The Solutions Group, and ComPsych Guidance Resources tables. Download the mobile app and take a look (or show the fine folks you've already got it!), and you'll be entered to win extra raffle prizes.  Having our medical, pharmacy, and mental health apps on our phones gives us easy access when we need it most! Lower your stress in the moment and keep your benefits and wellness resources at your fingertips.

 

NEW & Expanded Biometric Screens!

What Are Biometric Screens?

A biometric screening is a medical examination that assesses a person's overall risk of chronic disease. A biometric screen includes: 

    • Blood pressure
    • Blood glucose levels
    • Cholesterol levels (HDL/LDL)
    • Triglyceride levels 
    • Height and weight
    • Body mass index (BMI)

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The Blue Cross Blue Shield Care Van and Presbyterian Mobile Health Unit will provide biometric screenings for employees. The vans will be parked in the front lot. Care coordinators and wellness coaches will be available to answer questions, provide guidance, and offer resources after your screening. 

 Other preventive health services, such as vaccinations, mammograms, a blood drive, a mini farmers' market, local businesses, community wellness organizations, and more, will be available. This event is open to all APS employees regardless of full- or part-time status. 

*Links for mammograms and blood donation appointments are below. You do not need an appointment for biometric screenings or vaccinations.

Get personal support from any of our APS Benefits vendors.  

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Health Plans:
    • Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico
    • Presbyterian Health Plan
    • Express Scripts Pharmacy
    • Davis Vision 
    • Delta Dental
  • Hinge Health - Physical therapy/exercise therapy program for muscle, joint pain, injuries, mobility, and strength! Talk to representatives of this incredible program. Get enrolled and get your movement back!
  • Livongo - For blood pressure, diabetes, pre-diabetes/weight management. Talk to representatives from this all-in-one solution for chronic conditions. Get enrolled and get your life back! 
  • ComPsych - Talk to a local ComPsych representative and learn more about your NEW Employee Assistance Program through ComPsych Guidance Resources. 
  • Financial Wellness:   
    • TCG Administrators - Voluntary retirement savings plan vendor
    • PERA SmartSave/Voya Financial - Voluntary retirement savings plan vendor
    • New Mexico Education Retirement Board (NMERB) 
    • Nusenda Credit Union
    • ASI-Flex - Flexible spending for medical and childcare expenses
  • The Standard Life Insurance 
  • Hartford Long-term Disability Insurance

How to engage in the online enrollment process

  • The process for enrolling in benefits through the Winocular WorkSpace system has not changed. This is the same platform you use to sign your annual contract and complete your initial benefits enrollment. Once you receive your "Welcome to Open Enrollment" email from hr@aps.edu between Oct. 1-5, you will follow the links to your Winocular SmartForms. 

Wellness Fair Events

PHP Mobile Care Unit & BCBS Care Van Biometric Screens

  • Dates: Wednesday, Oct. 7 & Thursday, Oct. 8 from 2:30 to 6:00 p.m. 
  • Location: Berna Facio Professional Development Center, front parking lot. No appointment is needed — walk-ups are welcome! 
  • Details: Offering blood glucose, A1C, blood pressure, total cholesterol (triglycerides, HDL/LDL), pulse-ox, and BMI screens.
  • Care coordinators and wellness coaches will be available to answer questions, provide guidance, and offer resources after your screening. 

Check this off the list for preventive screens this year! This is free of charge and open to all employees and dependents.

Mammograms

  • Date: Wednesday, Oct. 7 - Thursday, Oct. 8, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Here is a flyer with more information. 
  • Location: Berna Facio Professional Development Center, front parking lot.
  • Mammograms are a preventive screening for employees and eligible dependents covered at 100% under APS medical plans. 
Schedule a Mammogram

Vaccine Clinic - No Appointment Necessary-Bring completed consent form!

  • Date: Wednesday, Oct. 7, and Thursday, Oct. 8, 2:30 to 6:00 p.m.
  • Location: Berna Facio Professional Development Center, Room #102
  • Details: COVID-19 vaccines, flu, pneumonia, shingles, and Tdap shots will be available.
  • To save time in line, fill out the vaccination consent form ahead of time. Here is the vaccine consent form in Spanish. Please bring the filled form along with your prescription drug insurance card. 
  • This vaccine event is for APS employees and their families. It is not a vaccine event for the public. The vaccines listed above are covered at 100% for APS employees and dependents covered under the APS medical plans.
  • Please remember to bring your prescription drug insurance card. Prescription drug/pharmacy benefits are offered through Express Scripts/Evernorth. 
  • There is no 'cash-pay' option.

Blood Donor Drive - Sign up & donate!

Donation Dates:

Visit Local Businesses & a Mini-Farmers Market! 

  • The Solutions Group - Wellness coaching consults, smoothie bike, fun activities! (official APS Wellness vendor)
  • Por Vida Therapeutics - We're treating you to a 15-minute chair massage!
  • Casa Walters Essential Oils  
  • EMS Farms - vegetables, fruits, flowers (Ansley the flower guy!)
  • Bees Honey
  • Arbonne
  • Natural Grocers
  • Center for Vein Restoration - Free vein screenings!
  • Spine Solutions
  • Genesis Health Clubs (formerly NM Sports & Wellness)
  • The Picklr
  • The American Red Cross
  • The 529 Education Savings Plan (did you know it's more than a college savings plan?)
  • The YMCA 
  • The Wellness Lab
  • HotWorx 
  • Stone Age Climbing Gym
  • The Stretch Lab
  • Orange Theory Fitness
  • Forward Bound Fitness
  • Ayurvedic Community Wellness Center
  • Golden Horizon Counseling Group
  • Meridian Behavioral Health
  • Waves Behavioral Health
  • NAMI of Abq
  • The Grief Center
  • New Mexico Behavioral Health
  • AAA of New Mexico
  • NM CPR Associates
  • Overeaters Anonymous
  • Grand Canyon University
  • UNMH CareLink